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The Colour of Autumn

If you look past the mess and obvious work that needs to be done you will find little spots of colour and beauty in my Autumn garden. But, you reee-ally need to look past a lot of debris and fallen leaves to see it. If you love the look of fallen leaves and fading blooms, then you don’t have to look too hard to marvel at the changes that are happening in my garden. And if you go outside at the right time of day … you know, that special time when the sun catches the foliage at that splendid angle … well then you will see lots of beauty and colour in my very messy autumn garden!

Lets see what beauty we can find in the foliage and combinations …

Carex, H. petiolare & P. Rubrum

Pink Camellia has fallen into Dusty Miller

Pandorea, Lavender and Gaura stems

Helichrysum petiolare with Pennisetum rubrum

Dropped Camellias and dried leaves …

Prairie fire and Ipomoea batatas

Miscanthus sinesis “Variegatum”

Evergreen combinations that work

Carex evergold and Duranta Sheenas Gold

Gaura lindheimeri ‘Siskiyou Pink’

Lavender & foliage for Autumn flowers

Strobilanthes and a single Crocosmia bloom

Carex and dainty blue Lobelia

A small Imperata cilindrica “Red Baron”

The new Nandina leaves are pink?

Fallen leaves look beautiful against grasses

Blooms are few and far between, and yet there is so much colour courtesy of all the foliage.

Dominated by large trees on a medium sized property, my garden is very shaded. With no “full sun” areas I have to plant shade and partial shade loving plants. I love shrubs and flowers including camellias and azaleas but Roses and Irises are my favourite and getting these to thrive is a challenge …

8 Comments

Wow Christine! I happen to think your garden looks great! I like it when the plants are all grown together and showing a little “freeform.” I really like the carex ever gold and the durance, and the your photo of the gaura. Can’t believe the color of the leaves on the nandina…they are beautiful! Don’t work too speedily to get it cleaned up, it’s lovely!

You have just the right touch to get that perfect light photo from your foliage – so beautiful!! I LOVE LOVE the pink Nandina leaves…wow! How unusual.
The winner, though, is the P. Rubrum – you can put her anywhere and she just glows, hey?

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